Rip Machine Ethical Dilemmas

patients often think what will happen to them and how are they going to get through this horrible

In this talk ““Am I dying?” The honest answer”, Matthew O'Reilly (2014) told about when peoples had minutes left to live, what are they thinking about and their feeling of that moment. The author is a veteran emergency medical technician. His task is to save people's lives, but not everyone life can be saved by him. He saw many situations when he saving some peoples that had suffered critical injuries. Maybe the patient only had minutes left to live, they always asking a

Analyze the requirements of the system and how this DSS is reducing medical errors and improving clinical practice.

Concerns about AI also encompass whether it does create the most accurate diagnoses for patient care. Since AI uses large data banks to make decisions for what treatments may be best for a patient or for a diagnosis of an illness, people may be led to believe that this option is less personalized. Some people have made this belief since AI takes information from the general public to make a decision about an individual. However, research has shown that the accuracy of diagnoses when using data banks to make medical decisions is far more accurate than a diagnosis from a typical doctor. Also, doctors normally do not have the same opinions so that creates inconsistency for diagnoses, whereas AI would be consistent (Sissons, Ben. “Using Artificial Intelligence to Bring Evidence-Based Medicine a Step Closer to Making a Difference”). The average doctor gives correct diagnoses less than half the time. The accuracy for different diagnoses depend on the field of study. For example, the accuracy of AI for correctly diagnosing dermatological diseases was 97.55%. The accuracy for diagnosing a group of people with a certain type of diabetes came to be 79.37%, which is still higher than the average for a typical doctor (Lekkas, Stavros. “Evolving Fuzzy Medical Diagnosis of Pima Indians Diabetes and of Dermatological Diseases”). This research shows that AI is capable of making accurate diagnoses. Ethical concerns were

Five years ago, my mother was rushed to the hospital for an aneurysm. For the next two weeks, my family and I sat huddled around her bed in the intensive-care unit, oscillating between panic, fear, uncertainty, and exhaustion.

I received the news, that my mother had no chance to live and one doctor, placed his hand on my shoulder and sighed loudly with discomfort. He said,” she is not a candidate for any treatment.” I stormed into the ICU room, and held my mother’s hand; she glared at me, unconsciously. I couldn't help but hold back my emotions, so I could be strong for our family. As my eyes were helplessly filling up with tears, I couldn't help but to look around at the doctors and nurses working diligently, and doing the best they could for my mother. At the moment, I remembered the sacrifices that were made to help my mother and how saving lives was my calling from God. Thankfully, my mother survives but only at a twenty percent ejection

Imagine you are laying in a hospital bed while being hooked up to countless machines coming from every direction. The doctors and nurses are coming in constantly to check up on you while you are trying to get what little sleep you can through your fatigue, excruciating pain and the slow wasting away of your body. On top of all of that you are suffering from the side effects from countless drugs including; delirium (confusion), no appetite because of the constant nausea (throwing up), constipation and you are fighting just to take another breath. The doctors have already stated that you have no chance of survival now; and

The current health situation should be explained in a non-technical way so the patient (if possible) family, and or valid surrogate can understand every aspect. The physician should also help them understand when there is no hope for recovery. Most often the organs are no longer functioning, or there is little to no brain activity; at this point suffering potentially outweighs the probability of recovery. Medical teams most often realize that the focus should be on comfort, rather than extending a dying life. This decision comes with a great deal of uncertainty, and will always be hard, no matter what age of the patient, or the circumstances. Kathryn Kosh, MD explains that, “Ready access to advanced modern technology has changed death from an event to a process… Defying death requires payment [in the form of] pain and discomfort or in an unacceptable decline in the quality of life.” Often times physicians will not prescribe treatment in the first place knowing that this option will not benefit the patient, prolong suffering; and will likely end in termination anyway. Therefore, allowing the nature of the illness or injury to take its own course of action. Another point of interest regarding this topic is that medical teams realize in most cases, that providing an ethical and dignified death can be just as rewarding as administering aggressive measures to save a

Most people believe that it is their right to be present during a loved-one’s resuscitation, should they so desire. Contrary to the fears of the medical community, family members who have been present during a resuscitation report that the experience was not traumatic for them and would in fact opt to witness it again. Also, being present seems to provide a sense of closure and security in knowing that everything possible was done to save their loved one’s life (Critchell et al 2007).

In conclusion, the RIP system is very beneficial to doctors and families. It gives doctors more information on the likelihood of the patient living and recommendation for treatment. It does not matter who the patient is or what color their skin is, the computer gives results based on the data the doctor or medical assistant have put in the program. The system allows an emotional break for doctors and families and, most importantly, does not waste resources because if a patient isn’t likely to survive then the program will try to let the doctor choose to either let the patient die or try to make them live.

In our lifetime, as we experience the loss of our loved ones, death is often perceived to be frightening and may provoke numerous feelings such as confusion and anger. The reality of the inevitability and permanence of death is an uncomfortable subject, but it is one that must be ultimately faced. When dealing with an extremely ill relative or a loved one that has been in a life-threatening accident, medical futility becomes a looming topic. According to the article “Defining Medical Futility and Improving Medical Care” in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, medical futility is defined as the “unacceptable likelihood of achieving an effect that the patient has the capacity to appreciate as a benefit” (Schneiderman, 2011, p.123). Essentially,

The RIP system is an effective use of medical technology not only because it can help save lives but also because the RIP system helps eliminate discrimination in the emergency room. A lot of times race, age, gender and social class seem to affect the decisions of some medical professionals. With the RIP system this is no longer a problem. Computers do not make the decisions but do however provide valuable information on how to treat each patient. The article states “Rather, it provides data and information that allow trained medical personnel to make more informed decisions about how to allocate very expensive treatment procedures and how to use most effectively limited medical resources, such as

The author showed a lot of feelings of what her opinions were on the issue. For example, where she said she could have died differently, that her parents could have been there holding her and let her death come gently instead of having the staff try to resuscitate for over an hour. That was just her point of view on the events that happened, she didn’t show any statistical reason for why it should have happened different and all her information she gave was all based on one case. Terminally ill patients are deemed terminally ill for one reason; all odds are against their chance of survival and recovery. The body's ability to sustain life itself fails, and is overridden by a machine of medication. Therefore, as soon as they are removed from this machine or medicine, they will die. In addition, the methods at which these tools are administered are not always the most pleasant to experience. These last ditch attempts at sustaining life can scar and disfigure the body permanently in addition to the immense pain. This brings up the question of why should this suffering be administered at all? If the patient is going to die anyway, why

     Imagine yourself lying on an operating table, motionless, quiet. Above, you notice people standing over you. You try to speak but the words just cannot come out. Your arms feel as if they are plastered to the table. You begin to stand up but feel as if weights are strapped to your back and you are bound to the table. Suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your midsection. In and out, you see a surgeon slicing your body open with a scalpel. Every motion the masked person makes is as if you are being torn apart from the inside out. One would hope this would simply be a nightmare and they will wake up and everything will be fine. In this instance, this person will

Technology can assist healthcare workers on every clinical and administrative level to use information more effectively in clinical decision-making for patients, and in implementing strategic goals within an organization.